HSS8005
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Title Subtitle
Week 1 Gamblers, God, Guinness and peas

A brief history of statistics

Week 2 Revisiting Flatland

A review of general linear models

Week 3 Dear Prudence, Help! I may be cheating with my X

Interactions and the logic of causal inference

Week 4 The Y question

Generalised linear models

Week 5 Do we live in a simulation?

Basic data simulation for statistical inference and power analysis

Week 6 Challenging hierarchies

Multilevel models

Week 7 The unobserved

Latent variables and structural models

Week 8 Words, words, mere words…

Text as data

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References

David, F. N. 1955. “Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics i. Dicing and Gaming (a Note on the History of Probability).” Biometrika 42 (1/2): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.2307/2333419.
El-Shagi, Makram, and Alexander Jung. 2015. “Have Minutes Helped Markets to Predict the MPC’s Monetary Policy Decisions?” European Journal of Political Economy 39 (September): 222–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.05.004.
Gelman, Andrew, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari. 2020. Regression and other stories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139161879.
Lord, R. D. 1958. “Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics.: VIII. De Morgan and the Statistical Study of Literary Style.” Biometrika 45 (1/2): 282–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/2333072.
McElreath, Richard. 2020. Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan. Second. CRC Texts in Statistical Science. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis, CRC Press.
Mulvin, Dylan. 2021. Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing in. Infrastructures Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Senn, Stephen. 2003. “A Conversation with John Nelder.” Statistical Science 18 (1): 118–31. https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1056397489.